On November 22, I posted my and CBS's predictions for the likely Big Ten bowl line-up. And then we had two weekends of upsets, chokes, fades, and generally vomitous play by the top teams. And the equally vomitous but inactive Big Ten leaders, OSU and Illinois, benefited greatly from the churn.
OSU has snuck upwards thru the muck to the title game; and Illinois pass/fail'd its way from the Capital One to the Rose. Hey, if you can't succeed on your own merits, the next best thing is to succeed on the failures of others!
The other lucky son of a buck is Purdue, which was on the bubble. The extra BCS game (Illinois) for the Big Ten opened a spot and Purdue snuck into the ever-prestigious Motor City Bowl. Which so happens to be a great place to spend the day after Xmas!
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